Fox News Finds the Perfect Replacement for Sarah Palin

It can’t have been easy to find a right winger dense and jingoistic enough to fill the big clown shoes of the recently disenfranchised Sarah Palin, but Fox News has risen to the occasion and found someone sure to delight their wingnut audience: Herman Cain Joins Fox News as Contributor.

Fox News Channel has hired former Republican presidential candidate and Godfather’s Pizza CEO Herman Cain as a contributor. Cain will provide political and business analysis and commentary across FNC’s daytime and primetime programming, as well as on Fox Business Network.

“Cain’s impressive resume makes him a valuable addition to the FOX News and FOX Business lineup,” said EVP Bill Shine. “As a political expert with business savvy, he brings an important voice to the nation’s debates.” …

Cain added, “I’m excited about joining the FOX family as a contributor because it is an opportunity to be one more voice for intelligent thinking in America.”

As opposed to “dumb thinking.”

UPDATE at 2/15/13 11:04:21 am

Fox News announces that Herman Cain will be their exclusive correspondent in Oo-beki-beki-beki-stan-stan.

Conservatives used a pair of secretive trusts to fund a media campaign against windfarms and solar projects, and to block state agencies from planning for future sea-level rise, the Guardian has learned.

The trusts, Donors Trust and Donors Capital Fund, served as the bankers of the conservative movement over the past decade. Promising anonymity to their conservative billionaire patrons, the trusts between them channelled nearly $120m to contrarian thinktanks and activists, wrecking the chances of getting Congress to act on climate change.

Now the Guardian can reveal the latest project of the secretive funding network: a campaign to stop state governments moving towards renewable energy.

After attending the State of the Union address on Tuesday and hearing President Barack Obama’s call for gun control legislation, Nugent repeated the false claim in his Wednesday World Net Daily column.

“No so-called assault weapon was used in the grisly murders of the children and teachers in Newton, Conn,” Nugent wrote. “NBC has reported the butcher used four handguns.”

The Motor City Madman added: “[A]nd though we can all agree that anything reported by the networks and so much of the media should be disbelieved out of hand, even if the Bushmaster modern sporting rifle were used in the demonic slaughter of innocents, semi-automatics are not ‘assault weapons.’ Period.”

Nugent ignored that many other news outlets, including CNN, have correctly reported that Lanza took a Bushmaster AR-15 and two other weapons inside Sandy Hook Elementary School.

Connecticut State Police Lt. J. Paul Vance even held a press conference to debunk the rumors.

“It’s all these conspiracy theorists that are trying to mucky up the waters,” Vance said last month. “There’s no doubt that the rifle was used solely to kill 26 people in that school.”

As Media Matters noted on Friday, Nugent’s claim that the “AR-15 has more in common with a common .22 semi-automatic squirrel rifle than a military assault weapon” is also inaccurate.

Uh, Ted, you do realize that the AR15, with very few exceptions, is almost exactly the same as a standard-issue M16 that most soldiers in the US military have used for almost fifty years now, right?

Both the AR15 and M16 share the same basic design, both fire 5.56 NATO (.223 Remington), and both were designed by the same man, Eugene Stoner; except for civilian AR15’s lack of select-fire capability to allow for 3-round burst (or fully automatic fire, as in older M16s), they are almost EXACTLY ALIKE in form and function.

How about a new “The Five” panel consisting of Palin, Cain, West, Jim Hoft, and Mark Levin.

I bet Obama would resign the day it was announced. There are no more articulate voices of conservatism anywhere. It would be devistating. Obama wouldn’t be able to spew his Marxist Fascist Maoist class warfare rhetoric without having to answer for it.

Such a show might just save the Reoublic from thr hoards demanding free stuff.

I was listening to Fresh Air yesterday and heard part of an interview with someone who wrote a history of the KKK in North Carolina during the civil rights movement.

The head of the clan used to make all these speeches who’s theory was that since black people aren’t really human enough to want freedom, the civil rights movement must work by blacks being controlled by socialists that themselves are totally controlled by the Jewish Conspiracy. And so there was mad ranting about socialists and communists but it was all the less important sandwich between anti-black racism and anti-Jewish racism.

I thought “how interesting, we have a black president now, and the GOP BRINGS BACK the mad mad mad anti-socialist ranting, minus the now-unacceptable obvious racism”

I wonder what Allen West would think of the provenance of his crazy anti-communist rants.

Time to trot out my Shep Smith conspiracy theory: he’s their official “loose cannon” that doesn’t adhere to the Fox News basic script. He’s given leave to challenge their usual narrative, so Ailes, et. al., can scream, “Look! Fair and Balanced! See!”

Apparently it wasn’t just in the Carolinas (or a Carolina). I just finished a history of “Freedom Summer” by Bruce Watson, and the same rhetoric about communist agitators upsetting “our blacks” was chucked around a lot in Mississippi.

Honestly it sounds very JBS, to the point that I’d wonder if that was the origin point.

Even today, RW nut job orthodoxy is that the Kent State protestors should have been fired on.

Somebody is deviating from approved RW talking points here.

I don’t think they’re actually deviating from them at all. They’re just drawing a false equivalence.

Kent State = students getting shot up and killed.

Sandy Hook = students getting shot up and killed.

Forget the different circumstances, ages of the dead, etc. In both cases students were killed on campus. Yet Kent State didn’t lead to gun bans. Ergo, Sandy Hook shouldn’t either. You know, becuase the two events are exactly the same or something.

I don’t think they’re actually deviating from them at all. They’re just drawing a false equivalence.

Kent State = students getting shot up and killed.

Sandy Hook = students getting shot up and killed.

Forget the different circumstances, ages of the dead, etc. In both cases students were killed on campus. Yet Kent State didn’t lead to gun bans. Ergo, Sandy Hook shouldn’t either. You know, becuase the two events are exactly the same or something.

I agree that this is how this ‘argument’ is probably supposed to work. However, “government killing innocent students” is not a canonical RW description of Kent State. Pope Rush would not approve.

On Friday, Fox Business host Stuart Varney and Fox News host Steve Doocy attacked preschool access as a government handout intended to extend “literally, the nanny state.” Varney echoed an argument used by former presidential candidate Mitt Romney that Obama won the election by giving “gifts” to women and minorities. Even though Obama cannot run for office a third time, the host warned the president is using preschool to entice a whole new generation of toddlers to support him when they’re eligible in 15 years:
VARNEY: Look what the president is doing here, it’s a repeat performance of his campaign, which is you raise taxes on the rich and you offer all kinds of free stuff to people who will vote for you in the future. Free preschool education for 4-year-olds, it’s free, here it is. Hand out the goodies.

But of course massive tax cuts to the very wealthy aren’t “free goodies” at all, it’s rewarding “society’s most productive members but making pre-school more affordable is terrible and a plot to get people to vote for Obama in the future. Shit there’s a lot of headcases at FNC.

VARNEY: Look what the president is doing here, it’s a repeat performance of his campaign, which is you raise taxes on the rich and you offer all kinds of free stuff to people who will vote for you in the future. Free preschool education for 4-year-olds, it’s free, here it is. Hand out the goodies.

Strictly speaking, it was Congress that raised taxes very slightly last month and it would be Congress’s job to pass legislation dealing with preschool programs. But I wouldn’t want to interrupt the intelligent thinking being displayed here. ////

Dean, who last year sparked outrage after a controversial appearance at an Iowa high school, was invited by a student group to speak at an after-school meeting at Spanish River High School in Boca Raton, Fla. According to a lawyer representing Dean and his group, the school’s principal ordered Dean’s event shut down, citing concerns over Dean’s anti-gay stance. A school district spokesman was not available for comment.

The lawyer, Horatio Mihet of Liberty Counsel, wrote the school district on behalf of Dean and the student organization, the American Club, claiming that the decision to bar Dean’s appearance violated the Constitution.

“We see serious constitutional problems with the principal censoring religious and political expression simply because they are deemed ‘offensive,’ especially when there are no specific, articulable facts to support such an assertion,” he wrote. “Federal law, including the Constitution, protects the right of student clubs to present their ideas without fear of censorship because of disagreement with the content of the message.”

Which is high hilarity coming from Liberty Counsel, who routinely attack anyone arguing for gay rights.

Is it really so bad to support programs so people may vote for you? I mean if that’s the only purpose, yeah, but if it’s considered when drawing up the legislation. What’s so wrong with that? Are we to believe the Republican Party doesn’t suck at the teat of the extremely wealthy interests and not expect support both financially and vote wise in return?

Which is high hilarity coming from Liberty Counsel, who routinely attack anyone arguing for gay rights.

That’s one of those feature not a bug thing. Anyhow, IMO they should be free to set up whatever group they want but the LC’s freakout is funny for the reasons you say since they have no problem with banning Gay-Straight Alliances throughout the country.

This is what my congresscritter was doing that was so important he couldn’t make it to the SOTU:

I won’t be watching that. Even if he had to take a drink in the middle of it.

If anyone was wondering what that meat puppet was doing there:

Federal wildlife officials are considering to list the lesser prairie chicken as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, something critics argue would hurt the state’s economy.

On Tuesday people rallied in protest of the listing as Roswell became the last stop for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife seeking public opinions on the proposal.

Wildlife officials say the lesser prairie chicken population has declined over the years, and are now considering whether to list it as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.

“It was a candidate species based on the fact that the populations were declining due to drought, due to habitat fragmentation, due to oil and gas development,” explained Cal Baca, USFWS chief of the Wildlife Management Division.

Rep. Steve Pearce, R-N.M., was in Roswell for the rally, and spoke to the crowd.

“The Fish and Wildlife Service is working with bad science, with bad ideas, and with an assumption that you have to kill jobs in order to protect a species,” said Pearce.

Not really, since lawyers were probably lining up at the dock in anticipation of this (or the customers on board had lawyers as relatives or told them to get on the horn with their lawyers). I figure there’d probably be a few class action suits being filed in coming weeks.

Watergate was all about subverting the very political process in the US to win the election (which was already pretty much in the bag for Nixon anyways).

Iran Contra was all about subverting federal law and the limits on the Executive Branch and foreign policy as well as Congressional oversight by selling weapons to Iran in contravention of sanctions against such sales.

Not really, since lawyers were probably lining up at the dock in anticipation of this (or the customers on board had lawyers as relatives or told them to get on the horn with their lawyers). I figure there’d probably be a few class action suits being filed in coming weeks.

That was certain. I thought it would take a few days before the lawsuits started.

Weren’t wingnuts accusing PBO of not sufficiently supporting Our Man in Cairo, Mubarak, in opposition to the rebels in Egypt because they feared the Muslim Brotherhood would take over?

Wingnut talking points confusing today.

They were, hell they still are. Conventional “wisdom” is that Obama should have propped up Mubarak, even defended him in the UN, in order to maintain the “status quo.” Likewise we should have troops in every nation touched by the Arab Spring, because it was an opportunity to bring “democracy” to them (i.e. install US-friendly dictators).

Not really, since lawyers were probably lining up at the dock in anticipation of this (or the customers on board had lawyers as relatives or told them to get on the horn with their lawyers). I figure there’d probably be a few class action suits being filed in coming weeks.

The compensation being offered is ridiculous. If they wanted to head off lawsuits they wouldn’t have offered a lousy $500. I would calculate the amount a reasonable contingency plan to get the passengers off the ship quickly would have cost, and split that. Then add a couple thou in punitive damages.

The right really shouldn’t be lecturing any president on supporting dictators when a lot of them think the coup that installed Pinochet in Chile was not only a net good but a positive good overall for Chile.

I get that in wingnut arguments where I’m assumed to worship Obama, but there’s this wonderful racist subtext to that, where treating an uppity black man who rose above his race’s station with anything OTHER than total hatred, contempt and slander IS WORSHIP

“you’ll like this since you liberals hate capitalism. …you think the government should solve all problems. …just like your heroes castro and stalin! …you want government to guarantee outcomes… …you believe in the religion of Secular Humanism, with its slogan ‘Man is the Measure of All Things’… why do you liberals hate america and sympathize with terrorists? why do you liberals want to destroy the traditional family and the christian religion? why do you liberals want to create a totalitarian communist government that promotes atheism?…”

I usually stop listening if I hear “you liberals” or if you remember barflytom “you lefties.” I mean if you’re going to broadbrush me without getting to know me and my individual views first and why I feel the way I do then you can fuck off.

The compensation being offered is ridiculous. If they wanted to head off lawsuits they wouldn’t have offered a lousy $500. I would calculate the amount a reasonable contingency plan to get the passengers off the ship quickly would have cost, and split that. Then add a couple thou in punitive damages.

Getting the passengers off the ship quickly has no “reasonable” cost. You’ve got ship to ship transfer or helicopter shuttle (whether by sling lift or deck landings - assuming the ship has a deck that’ll support the landing.) both are risky, time consuming, and expensive.

This will have to go through the courts, but triumphCarnival is going to be asked why they didn’t send control staff when the onboard crew lost control. They’re going to be asked why they didn’t send large power units (mounted on-deck) to provide power for critical services. They’re going to be asked just what the training is given the jungle rules that seem to have taken over - that crew lost control.

fwiw, I suspect what triumphCarnival is really dreading is the safety investigation related to all that. There are a lot of exemptions for cruise ships but they aren’t total, and it looks like some that weren’t exempted (see above questions) still got ignored.

Getting the passengers off the ship quickly has no “reasonable” cost. You’ve got ship to ship transfer or helicopter shuttle (whether by sling lift or deck landings - assuming the ship has a deck that’ll support the landing.) both are risky, time consuming, and expensive.

This will have to go through the courts, but triumph is going to be asked why they didn’t send control staff when the onboard crew lost control. They’re going to be asked why they didn’t send large power units (mounted on-deck) to provide power for critical services. They’re going to be asked just what the training is given the jungle rules that seem to have taken over - that crew lost control.

fwiw, I suspect what triumph is really dreading is the safety investigation related to all that. There are a lot of exemptions for cruise ships but they aren’t total, and it looks like some that weren’t exempted (see above questions) still got ignored.

Not to be a pedant, but I think you may mean Carnival, not “triumph”; Carnival is the cruise line, Triumph is the ship.

Heh, there’s this made up statistic (TOTALLY INVENTED) that claims that people who abstain till marriage make more money over their lives. It started with the Heritage foundation saying “well that MUST be true” without actually checking.

I wonder what an actual study like that would show for gun ownership. Are people who own guns poorer? Are they more likely to go to jail. How do they do on out-of-wedlock children? I wonder.

I usually stop listening if I hear “you liberals” or if you remember barflytom “you lefties.” I mean if you’re going to broadbrush me without getting to know me and my individual views first and why I feel the way I do then you can fuck off.

“Libtards” is popular too.

I must admit on threads dominated by Tea Party types I often say “you people,” but then, just about everyone on those threads DOES fit the stereotype of a wingnut. Wingnuts pretty much cooperate with living up (or down) to their stereotype.

Heh, there’s this made up statistic (TOTALLY INVENTED) that claims that people who abstain till marriage make more money over their lives. It started with the Heritage foundation saying “well that MUST be true” without actually checking.

I wonder what an actual study like that would show for gun ownership. Are people who own guns poorer? Are they more likely to go to jail. How do they do on out-of-wedlock children? I wonder.

Its more total horseshit they pulled out of their ass, just like every other claim they make.

President Obama’s call for a minimum wage increase in Tuesday’s State of the Union address — like nearly all of his proposals — was met with immediate opposition from Congressional Republicans. But six years ago, many of the same Republicans supported a similar proposal backed by Republican President George W. Bush.

A ThinkProgress analysis finds that at least 67 Republicans who are still in Congress today backed an increase in the minimum wage in some form, including Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI).

The argument is that companies should be allowed to pay what they want to pay so as to maximize profits.

These people really don’t seem to have paid attention to history - to WHY Unions grew so strongly in the late 19th and early 20th century. And they don’t seem to have made Ford’s connection that the workers also buy things, to include things from their company — but only if they have money to do so.

Wiles: Last year, Barack Obama spiritually sodomized the US armed forces by compelling American generals to accept his demand that the military alter its code of moral conduct and permit homosexuals and lesbians to openly serve in the military.

Furthermore, he commanded the military to extend financial benefits to same-sex couples in the military. Additionally, military chapels on US military bases were ordered to permit homosexual marriage ceremonies inside the facilities.

The Boy Scouts of America is the next target of the socialist Obamanistas. Last week the Irving, Texas-based organization delayed a decision until May on whether the scouting organization will change its rules of conduct to allow homosexuals to serve as scout masters, troop leaders, and as Boy Scouts.

What will be the spiritual consequences of the American people allowing Barack Obama to spiritually sodomize the nation? Bishop Harry Jackson, Jr is on the telephone; I’m going to him that question.

I actually don’t think this is a bad idea, honestly. I grew up around guns and was taught how to use them by my father and I also learned just how dangerous they were and just how dead, dead is. We saw what happens when a round from a 30.06 hits a full gallon jug of kool-aid and the damage it does when I took my hunter safety course.

I really think if more kids learned the reality of guns rather than what they see on TV it could have a positive effect.

At the Wisconsin Right to Life Legislative Conference this week, the state’s top Republican lawmakers assured attendees that they will do everything in their power to enact a forced ultrasound bill, which would mandate an invasive transvaginal probe for some women seeking first-trimester abortions. “This bill is a priority,” Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald (R) said. “It is long overdue.”

The compensation being offered is ridiculous. If they wanted to head off lawsuits they wouldn’t have offered a lousy $500. I would calculate the amount a reasonable contingency plan to get the passengers off the ship quickly would have cost, and split that. Then add a couple thou in punitive damages.

$500 x 4,200 passengers = $2.1 million. That’s enough to be recouped by beverage service on a couple of cruises.

They probably did the cost-benefit analysis and figure people wont go through the hassle of suing, even though it would have been a better PR move to offer up refunds (not simply a free cruise down the line) plus say $2,500 per passenger. It might cost $10m or more to do, but that’s better PR than watching Carnival’s branding get whacked once again.

It’s tone deaf, but then again Carnival knows that it’s got a pretty sweet deal legally because of its contract with its customers, favorable international law and that’s it’s managed to secure a favorable port where it can be sued (Miami). It controls the terms, and it’s written that contract to its favor. It’s also capped its liability at the higher limits allowed under 46 US 30506, which is the same provision that they’ll use to cap their damages for the Costa Concordia disaster.

SACRAMENTO — A Bay Area man who authorities say was building homemade bombs was arrested this week for threatening to kill a state lawmaker.

Everett Basham, 45, was booked on multiple charges, including possession of a manufactured explosive and illegal possession of chemicals used to make explosives.

Police served an arrest warrant for the man after being alerted by state Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), whose office said the lawmaker had been threatened with death for pushing legislation to restrict assault weapons.

I actually don’t think this is a bad idea, honestly. I grew up around guns and was taught how to use them by my father and I also learned just how dangerous they were and just how dead, dead is. We saw what happens when a round from a 30.06 hits a full gallon jug of kool-aid and the damage it does when I took my hunter safety course.

I really think if more kids learned the reality of guns rather than what they see on TV it could have a positive effect.

Yeah but mandatory gun education especially with all the already mandatory classes kids have to take to get a diploma? I do agree though, it would be helpful if more people saw that guns are deadly weapons though.

The poors need to spend, spend, spend to keep the economy going even if they don’t make enough to buy, buy, buy and they shouldn’t get credit they can’t handle but they should have credit cards to they can donate to their favorite religious grifter broadcast network’s stable of snake-handlers.//

I must admit on threads dominated by Tea Party types I often say “you people,” but then, just about everyone on those threads DOES fit the stereotype of a wingnut. Wingnuts pretty much cooperate with living up (or down) to their stereotype.

the difference is, though, as should be really obvious from reading sites like this, is that progressives stereotype wingnuts based on actual quotes instead of made up opinions

The poors need to spend, spend, spend to keep the economy going even if they don’t make enough to buy, buy, buy and they shouldn’t get credit they can’t handle but they should have credit cards to they can donate to their favorite religious grifter broadcast network’s stable of snake-handlers.//

$500 x 4,200 passengers = $2.1 million. That’s enough to be recouped by beverage service on a couple of cruises.

They probably did the cost-benefit analysis and figure people wont go through the hassle of suing, even though it would have been a better PR move to offer up refunds

My understanding it they ARE giving full refunds along with discounts on future cruises (as if any of the passengers will take them up on THAT). That’s the least to be expected, but the additional compensation is a joke.

Everyone pays taxes. Or at least everyone who draws a paycheck at some point during the year. Taxes are taken out of that paycheck. The person pays taxes. They may get most or all of it back if they are able to deduct enough. But every worker pays taxes. Such bullsht.

Considering, at the school I went to, Archery was a part of PE why not have shooting as well?

Of course, though I do support the idea of high schools possibly offering gun training classes, once you decide to do it you suddenly buy the school district a whole additional bushel of costs that have to be funded; range and maintenance thereof, guns themselves, ammo, secure storage thereof and then the additional liability insurance that will be needed.

Everyone pays taxes. Or at least everyone who draws a paycheck at some point during the year. Taxes are taken out of that paycheck. The person pays taxes. They may get most or all of it back if they are able to deduct enough. But every worker pays taxes. Such bullsht.

Yep. But this is the American wingnut who actually believes that there’s a large portion of the country that pays no taxes at all.

My understanding it they ARE giving full refunds along with discounts on future cruises (as if any of the passengers will take them up on THAT). That’s the least to be expected, but the additional compensation is a joke.

Carnival’s legal exposure is probably surprisingly low (and also not likely to be affected by the generosity of the compensation), so this kind of bean counting is to be expected.

Wouldn’t it be interesting if the choice of destination port affected the legal situation? I hope reporters are looking into the question of whether the affair dragged out longer than it had to in order to get the ship into a better port for the defendant.

“you’ll like this since you liberals hate capitalism. …you think the government should solve all problems. …just like your heroes castro and stalin! …you want government to guarantee outcomes… …you believe in the religion of Secular Humanism, with its slogan ‘Man is the Measure of All Things’… why do you liberals hate america and sympathize with terrorists? why do you liberals want to destroy the traditional family and the christian religion? why do you liberals want to create a totalitarian communist government that promotes atheism?…”

and on and on and on

They get that type of argument from their hero rush who always starts with “liberals say, liberals believe, moonbats this, moonbats that”. It’s the style of argument impotent losers use because they can’t argue facts - just strawmen.

They get that type of argument from their hero rush who always starts with “liberals say, liberals believe, moonbats this, moonbats that”. It’s the style of argument impotent losers use because they can’t argue facts - just strawmen.

Well, Chinese emperors got buried with large groups of clay soldiers. Maybe Rush is setting up to get entombed with an army of scarecrows.
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$500 x 4,200 passengers = $2.1 million. That’s enough to be recouped by beverage service on a couple of cruises.

They probably did the cost-benefit analysis and figure people wont go through the hassle of suing, even though it would have been a better PR move to offer up refunds (not simply a free cruise down the line) plus say $2,500 per passenger. It might cost $10m or more to do, but that’s better PR than watching Carnival’s branding get whacked once again.

It’s tone deaf, but then again Carnival knows that it’s got a pretty sweet deal legally because of its contract with its customers, favorable international law and that’s it’s managed to secure a favorable port where it can be sued (Miami). It controls the terms, and it’s written that contract to its favor. It’s also capped its liability at the higher limits allowed under 46 US 30506, which is the same provision that they’ll use to cap their damages for the Costa Concordia disaster.

But still and again, if sailing after the previous mechanical problem is considered negligence, then the limitations are mooted. forex 30509(A).

Everyone pays taxes. Or at least everyone who draws a paycheck at some point during the year. Taxes are taken out of that paycheck. The person pays taxes. They may get most or all of it back if they are able to deduct enough. But every worker pays taxes. Such bullsht.

QFT.

Withholding comes out of every single paycheck, regardless of the person’s tax brackets. At the end of the year (well, tax season), the taxpayers will see if they qualify for refunds of withholding taxes withheld for paying their tax obligations (taxes owed after taking all the applicable credits, deductions, losses, etc.)

Yep. But this is the American wingnut who actually believes that there’s a large portion of the country that pays no taxes at all.

the really shocking thing to me is that even a hypothetically well informed person like mitt could assert that 47% of the country ‘believe they are entitled’ and ‘don’t take personal responsibility for their own lives’

Of course many of the “non-tax payers” as the wingnut brigade would have it, are their fellow travelers, be they unemployed, retired, or young families with the right combination of child deductions and mortage interest deductions, and so on.

Police told The Providence Journal that they responded to calls about the phallic creation four different times in two days, but did nothing because it was on private property.

Of course, it didn’t have to be 12-feet tall. But when the mother of the teenage boys who built the thing saw how people were reacting, she felt like driving the point home a little.

“They’re teenage boys — there’s worse things they could be doing,” she told a Huffington Post reporter. “It was innocent. And to be honest, knowing that it pissed people off gave us a little charge. If you have nothing else to do in your day other than complain about a snow penis, we’ll make it 12 feet tall.”

the really shocking thing to me is that even a hypothetically well informed person like mitt could assert that 47% of the country ‘believe they are entitled’ and ‘don’t take personal responsibility for their own lives’

This is standard GOP dogma these days —- unusual levels of wing nuttiness are not needed here.

Besides, Romney clearly believes down to his bones that people who are less well off than him are that way as a result of their laziness and/or incompetence.

Besides the unemployed, elderly and young families with the right deductions, there are some “no federal tax liability” folks who get the earned income tax credit (which is what I assume the wingnut cry is really about). And the EITC of course, was more or less a centrist if not a conservative idea to “make work pay” and to help people get off of the welfare rolls. But now, as with many other policy items, the EITC has become anethema to the conservative chattering classes who in turn pass these talking points to their listeners.

That’ll come into play too, but it’s possible someone will try a products liability tact - defective design that they knowingly went with that had underpowered backup systems (IOW - attempt to pursue a strict liability, rather than negligence case).

That’ll come into play too, but it’s possible someone will try a products liability tact - defective design that they knowingly went with that had underpowered backup systems (IOW - attempt to pursue a strict liability, rather than negligence case).

Also true. And most likely they’ll try to shotgun all of them (plus some more esoteric challenges) into the case.

I was just going to point that out. Plaintiffs could throw everything and the kitchen sink into their pleadings, including theories that oppose each other (knowingly going and screwing up versus negligence as well as strict liability, etc.). I’d have to look at the Carnival TOS to see whether they prohibit class action suits, but that may be where it’s heading. If there are class action suits, it’s also possible to see a class extend far beyond this particular Triumph cruise to including anyone who ever took a cruise on this class of ship or any similar design since they too were subjected to these potential problems.

From a public health angle, if anyone from this cruise gets sick with say norovirus or hepatitis, etc., they too could have causes of action originating from the cruise. That could open up a seamy underside of the cruise industry - exposing just how bad things are below decks and that when the cruises always try to pin blame on passengers for spreading norovirus, the problems may be with sick crew members or food handling issues.

like what? I mean I know there’s a difference between traditional/conservative Japanese culture and popular Japanese culture, but popular Japanese culture probably gives their women slightly more wiggle room than American can, but as usual for things we wouldn’t even say we want, like the freedom to cheat on your husband or to read porn that we’d consider near illegal.

like what? I mean I know there’s a difference between traditional/conservative Japanese culture and popular Japanese culture, but popular Japanese culture probably gives their women slightly more wiggle room than American can, but as usual for things we wouldn’t even say we want, like the freedom to cheat on your husband or to read porn that we’d consider near illegal.

Well, you’re wrong. I don’t know what to say, man, I’m not going to teach you about Japanese culture via posts on LGF, nor should you seek to learn that way. Go read up on it, if you’re interested.

like what? I mean I know there’s a difference between traditional/conservative Japanese culture and popular Japanese culture, but popular Japanese culture probably gives their women slightly more wiggle room than American can, but as usual for things we wouldn’t even say we want, like the freedom to cheat on your husband or to read porn that we’d consider near illegal.

…

In a 2001 interview with women’s magazine Shukan Josei, Ishihara said that he believed “old women who live after they have lost their reproductive function are useless and are committing a sin,” adding that he “couldn’t say this as a politician.” He was criticized in the Tokyo Metropolitan Assembly for these comments, but responded that the criticism was driven by “tyrant… old women.”[38]

Why the picture of a penis is disgusting but the picture of a man brutally tortured and executed on a cross is revered art is lost on me.

i’m jewish. one day when i was about 8 or so at summer camp, i saw a statuette fall out of a woman counselor’s locker. it depicted a nearly naked man (washboard abs graphically depicted) nailed to a cross with blood drops coming out of various parts of his body

A TV advert showing Joaquin Phoenix ‘drowning’ has been banned from broadcast during the Oscars.

The Walk the Line actor shot the hard-hitting commercial, in which he is shown panicking and struggling to breathe underwater, to highlight the horror of a fish’s death as part of a People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) campaign.

Sec. 51.003. GENERAL EXEMPTIONS. (a) This chapter does not apply to employment of a child:
(1) employed:
(A) in a nonhazardous occupation;
(B) under the direct supervision of the child’s parent or an adult having custody of the child; and
(C) in a business or enterprise owned or operated by the parent or custodian;
(2) 11 years or older engaged in delivery of newspapers to the consumer;
(3) participating in a school-supervised and school-administered work-study program approved by the commission;
(4) employed in agriculture during a period when the child is not legally required to be attending school;
(5) employed through a rehabilitation program supervised by a county judge;
(6) engaged in nonhazardous casual employment that will not endanger the safety, health, or well-being of the child and to which the parent or adult having custody of the child has consented; or
(7) 16 years or older engaged in the direct sale of newspapers to the general public.
(b) In this section, “employment in agriculture” means engaged in producing crops or livestock and includes:
(1) cultivating and tilling the soil;
(2) producing, cultivating, growing, and harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity;
(3) dairying; and
(4) raising livestock, bees, fur-bearing animals, or poultry.
(c) For the purposes of Subsection (a)(6), the commission by rule may define nonhazardous casual employment that the commission determines is dangerous to the safety, health, or well-being of a child.

I was visiting a friend in rural southern Illinois a few years back and offered to help cook one day. So we hit the local market and I said that I’d go over through the produce section and then go look for a few spices. When he told me “good luck with that” I knew I was in trouble.

After lamenting that “public schools are morally bankrupt,” Mefferd asserted that proms which allow all students — gay or straight — to attend actually violate the rights of Christian students who disapprove of homosexuality.

What right in particular, you might ask?

According to Mefferd, apparently the right of students not to even see gay people!

She maintained that the students’ desire not to see gay students outweighs the rights of gay students to attend their own prom.

“Why should the rights of the [gay] activists trump the rights of Christians” who don’t want “to see that,” Mefferd asked.

(b) In this section, “employment in agriculture” means engaged in producing crops or livestock and includes:
(1) cultivating and tilling the soil;
(2) producing, cultivating, growing, and harvesting an agricultural or horticultural commodity;

So, all the Mexicans who work at the big agri plantations can bring their kids with them! amirite?

I was visiting a friend in rural southern Illinois a few years back and offered to help cook one day. So we hit the local market and I said that I’d go over through the produce section and then go look for a few spices. When he told me “good luck with that” I knew I was in trouble.

When I lived in Boston we had a cottage on an island off the coast of Portland Maine
One (very small) grocery store on the island. They would get their “fresh” veggie deliveries mon wed and fri at about 8 a.m (via a ferry from Portland

If you were at the store by 8:15 you might,,, MIGHT be lucky enough to get a small bunch of carrots!

A state consumer insurance advocate’s office could be shuttered in Texas just as it is making progress on blocking massive rate hike hammering homeowners across the state who are insured through State Farm, if a Republican state senator gets his way.

A bill filed Thursday by Sen. Kelly Hancock (pictured) of north Texas would, according to The Dallas Morning News, shut down the Office of Public Insurance Counsel, a key consumer advocate in the state’s insurance rulemaking process.

The bill comes immediately after the insurance counsel made strides toward blocking a 20 percent rate increase for homeowner’s insurance implemented by State Farm late last year. A hearing on the matter before an administrative law judge was set for March 4, according to an agency release issued Thursday (PDF).

And Thai as well. Then again I do substitute spaghetti for chinese noodles in my spicy sesame noodle recipe. (And which I personally think is superior to that served by a couple of the local Chinese restaurants.)

Technically, the Texas GOP could be accused of tyrannically oppressing homeowners forcing them to pay higher insurance, which means 2nd Amendment advocates would have no choice but to take to the streets.

“Consumer advocates and the like are outside agitators trying to cause trouble between our consumers and our business leaders. Our consumers have been mighty happy down here without these so-called advocates stirrin ‘em up.”

In the GOP Free labor market ideal, the entire American workforce would be lined up outside the Home Depot or the business park and bosses would drive up with pickups and announce what they were paying for labor that day. “I need two key accounts managers, two bookeepers, four salespeople and two IT staff”. You could take the offer or wait for the next truck.

“The author of the email specifically stated that if I did not cease our legislative efforts to stop gun violence that he would assassinate me in or around the Capitol,” Yee said in a statement released Thursday. “He stated that he was a trained sniper and his email detailed certain weapons he possessed.”

Yee said the email “was not a racist rant on my ethnicity or culture, but instead it was very deliberate and specific.” His office immediately notified law enforcement.

Thursday’s statement came after authorities made an arrest in the case. On Tuesday, law enforcement officials arrested Everett Basham, 45, a Silicon Valley engineer, according to The Los Angeles Times.

Hey, they have a third of an aisle out of about 30 which has Jewish, Asian, and Mexican food! The rest of the aisle is all tomato sauce and pasta related, so that’s Italian right?

“Can’t even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody; I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”

It’s been years since I’ve seen that. The last time would’ve been in the early 90s. “Ethnic Foods”, as I recall.

I still see the equivalent, though I don’t recall if there is a “label” on the aisle. Go into Wegman’s and there is a section that has the specialized brands for a number of cuisines; Thai, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Jewish, etc. all in one general area. And you can find some of the same ingredients elsewhere in the store; black beans for instance. Store brand is in one area with other canned beans, but there are also certain brands of black bean in with the other special items considered “Mexican cuisine”.

Remember folks, to the GOP, support our troops means they support having them die for bullshit reasons supplied with equipment they don’t want, not actually listening to troops or taking care of them when they return home.

There used to be a website called evilgopbastards or something like that. Maybe it still exists. The GOPteabag’s war on consumers fits right in there with the long list of evil, not to mention baffling, things the GOP’s done over the years.

“Can’t even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody; I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”

His best roll by far. He was absolutely perfect for the part. The look, the age, the mannerisms.

A generation ago, the idea of interracial couples being at a prom together was outrageous. A generation before that, the idea of blacks being anywhere near a white school prom was grounds for torches and pitchforks.

I think a lot of the more odious god bots realize they’re on the ropes. Won’t happen tomorrow, but I’m guessing by the time I’m ready to retire, their influence on US politics will on a serious drop.

Thre is a problem, though, the more tenuous their hold on actual political power, the louder they will shout and the more provocative they will be in their attempts to portray the “injustices” that have been done on their “christian nation”, which has been “spiritually sodomized”.

still just cannot get over that image, or rather the fact that they are so hung up that image.

I still see the equivalent, though I don’t recall if there is a “label” on the aisle. Go into Wegman’s and there is a section that has the specialized brands for a number of cuisines; Thai, Chinese, Indian, Mexican, Jewish, etc. all in one general area. And you can find some of the same ingredients elsewhere in the store; black beans for instance. Store brand is in one area with other canned beans, but there are also certain brands of black bean in with the other special items considered “Mexican cuisine”.

Here in the Czech Republic, in the stores that have it, it’s “Mezinarodní Kuchyně” or International Cuisine. Which is everything that’s not either Czech or Central European.

Tortilla chips and salsa are considered international cuisine here. I’M SO EXOTIC IN MY TASTES!!

Thre is a problem, though, the more tenuous their hold on actual political power, the louder they will shout and the more provocative they will be in their attempts to portray the “injustices” that have been done on their “christian nation”, which has been “spiritually sodomized”.

still just cannot get over that image, or rather the fact that they are so hung up that image.

I like to tell myself the louder they get, the more graphic their imagery, and the crazier their spewing, the quicker they’ll fall from grace.

In the GOP Free labor market ideal, the entire American workforce would be lined up outside the Home Depot or the business park and bosses would drive up with pickups and announce what they were paying for labor that day. “I need two key accounts managers, two bookeepers, four salespeople and two IT staff”. You could take the offer or wait for the next truck.

Might be better than the alternative free market model of indentured servitude for student loan debt that we are getting closer to. That fact that such debt can no longer be gotten rid of via bankruptcy is telling.

Thre is a problem, though, the more tenuous their hold on actual political power, the louder they will shout and the more provocative they will be in their attempts to portray the “injustices” that have been done on their “christian nation”, which has been “spiritually sodomized”.

still just cannot get over that image, or rather the fact that they are so hung up that image.

“So, is that a violation to the Constitution in your pocket, or are you just happy to see me?”

“Can’t even get decent food - right after I got here, I ordered some spaghetti with marinara sauce, and I got egg noodles and ketchup. I’m an average nobody; I get to live the rest of my life like a schnook.”

in practice, it seems to mean that chinese and mexican children are allowed to work at any age

Well, U.S. laws don’t apply to China & Mexico, although U.S. corporations should be sanctioned for contracting to overseas factories that employ children and where workers frequently burn to death like they did back in the old Triangle Shirtwaist days.

Definitely. A few of my students have cringed at the violence, but as I’ve said, look….we’re dealing with organized crime here. The Mob doesn’t invite you over for coffee and cookies when you make a mistake or do something you weren’t supposed to. They kill you. Violently.

Definitely. A few of my students have cringed at the violence, but as I’ve said, look….we’re dealing with organized crime here. The Mob doesn’t invite you over for coffee and cookies when you make a mistake or do something you weren’t supposed to. They kill you. Violently.

I found most of the violence in that movie hilarious. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s the way the whole movie was presented. It’s not a heavy drama. One friend was really freaked by the violence, I just shook my head. I mean, it’s a movie.

Evening Lizardim from the bitterly cold wild north country. Much ado about the meteor strike in Russia, and I have to admit, that would’ve absolutely terrified me. Those Russians are some hardcore people - but I suppose you’d have to be. It also made me think of Sergey; I hope he’s alright and not languishing in a real (not Twitter) Gulag somewhere.

Remember folks, to the GOP, support our troops means they support having them die for bullshit reasons supplied with equipment they don’t want, not actually listening to troops or taking care of them when they return home.

And when someone writes a song pointing that out, the same GOP nutters think it’s a patriotic anthem:

I found most of the violence in that movie hilarious. I don’t know why, perhaps it’s the way the whole movie was presented. It’s not a heavy drama. One friend was really freaked by the violence, I just shook my head. I mean, it’s a movie.

One movie where I can say I found the violence hilarious was “Koroshiya Ichi”….”Ichi the Killer” by Takashi Miike. It was so utterly over-the-top I couldn’t help but laugh.

American Life League founder Judie Brown says that the Roman Catholic Church must drive out pro-choice and pro-gay equality Catholics from the church because they are under “demonic deceit.”

She argues that Catholic Democrats such as the late Ted Kennedy, Joe Biden, Nancy Pelosi and Kathleen Sebelius advocate “anti-Christian” positions such as the decriminalization of abortion and “anti-family militant homosexuality and the destruction of marriage.”

“As the faithful watch the accelerated destruction of morality in America and the Henry the VIII style tactics of the attempted destruction of Catholicism in America by Obama and his ‘Catholic’ drones, one wonders where most of America’s bishops are,” Brown laments, “Why have these high-profile destructive Catholics not been publically rebuked?”

I AM THE MAGIC MAN!
I just got a call from a friend in Napa. There is a lady there claiming I’m the father of her baby. I just had to laugh. She probably doesn’t know I’ve been in Oklahoma for the last couple of years. I guess I’m a popular guy in Napa still. If she wants to sue me can I counter sue her? Where is Lawhawk?

I AM THE MAGIC MAN!
I just got a call from a friend in Napa. There is a lady there claiming I’m the father of her baby. I just had to laugh. She probably doesn’t know I’ve been in Oklahoma for the last couple of years. I guess I’m a popular guy in Napa still. If she wants to sue me can I counter sue her? Where is Lawhawk?

I AM THE MAGIC MAN!
I just got a call from a friend in Napa. There is a lady there claiming I’m the father of her baby. I just had to laugh. She probably doesn’t know I’ve been in Oklahoma for the last couple of years. I guess I’m a popular guy in Napa still. If she wants to sue me can I counter sue her? Where is Lawhawk?

Most of the bishops are either currently busy trying to avoid lawsuits due to the child rape scandal, or they’re busy trying to figure out how the hell to bring people into the priesthood since 99.99% of Catholics want to either get married or get laid (or both!) at some point before they die.

I’d tell you to go fuck yourself, but I suspect that would be a really boring experience for whichever hand you use.

Pray that each bishop will be touched by the Holy Spirit, on fire with a renewal of commitment to Christ and an active desire to abandon everything else in order to defend Christ and His Church from sacrilege—even unto death if that be God’s will.

Everything is so upside down in our society now and right and wrong have completely switched

I wouldn’t be at all surprised to find that Janet is standing on her head.

More seriously, this is a snapshot of what I believe a large number of Americans are going through. Their whole world has been turned upside-down because they have been so completely misled by their parents and peers.

They have a lot of ridiculous beliefs, and it’s very difficult to adjust to reality now that the bubbles are popping due to the Internet. They’re going through a really bad time, and we should all try to right as many of these upside-down people as possible.

I AM THE MAGIC MAN!
I just got a call from a friend in Napa. There is a lady there claiming I’m the father of her baby. I just had to laugh. She probably doesn’t know I’ve been in Oklahoma for the last couple of years. I guess I’m a popular guy in Napa still. If she wants to sue me can I counter sue her? Where is Lawhawk?

It probably wouldn’t be worth the bother. If they can’t get service of process on you, they can’t get a judgment. But if you do get served, make damn sure you respond so you don’t get a default judgment entered against you. If you ignore it, in a few years you could end up owing tens of thousands of dollars you could be legally libel to pay even though you aren’t the father.

I AM THE MAGIC MAN!
I just got a call from a friend in Napa. There is a lady there claiming I’m the father of her baby. I just had to laugh. She probably doesn’t know I’ve been in Oklahoma for the last couple of years. I guess I’m a popular guy in Napa still. If she wants to sue me can I counter sue her? Where is Lawhawk?

Must be a secret twin brother. //
I think I saw a movie like that, or a crime show maybe.

I think the speculation that this black pope from Africa, they keep holding him up and everybody’s like, “Hey, he’s going to be the next pope,” I think that that is a ruse. I think that’s being done by those Catholics who are also in the Vatican who he’s at war with, holding him ‑‑ holding this guy up and trying to create momentum for him. Because he’s a socialist. He’s a real diehard socialist kind of Marxist guy.

He’s a Marxist through and through, which is not what this Pope is. And that’s who he’s been at war with the whole time. I think that’s a ruse to try to get public sentiment to accept that this Marxist is going to be the next pope. And I think this Pope is out because he stacked the deck.

I’m so happy Glenn has found another black man he can call a socialist.
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That was the moment I realized that the Republican party had gone off the rails. Pat created a lot of Democrats that day.

I got my first passport shortly after Buchanan won the 1996 NH GOP primary, because of that event.

My mother’s parents emigrated from Germany to the US as Hitler was coming to power. In their old age, they lived in AZ, and were staunch conservatives. They loved Ronald Reagan. However, Buchanan was too much for them. Grandpa said Buchanan talked like a Nazi, and he should know.

Yet a militant leader of the homosexual rights movement could rise at that convention and exult: “Bill Clinton and Al Gore represent the most pro-lesbian and pro-gay ticket in history.” And so they do.

Conservatives and Tea Partiers plan to reignite the flame of 2010 next Saturday at rallies in cities and towns across America. The event is titled the “Day of Resistance,” and head organizer Dustin Stockton told Breitbart News that February 23 was picked as the date for several reasons.

“The first is one which I’ve been getting ruthlessly abused for and that is because the AR-15 caliber is .223,” Stockton said in a phone interview. “It’s also the day that we raised the flag in Iwo Jima and it’s also a Saturday, so people who work regular hours can also attend.”

Conservatives and Tea Partiers plan to reignite the flame of 2010 next Saturday at rallies in cities and towns across America. The event is titled the “Day of Resistance,” and head organizer Dustin Stockton told Breitbart News that February 23 was picked as the date for several reasons.

“The first is one which I’ve been getting ruthlessly abused for and that is because the AR-15 caliber is .223,” Stockton said in a phone interview. “It’s also the day that we raised the flag in Iwo Jima and it’s also a Saturday, so people who work regular hours can also attend.”

You know it’s odd that none of the Android browsers can handle javascript on a page this long even on a tablet with plenty of memory. It’s not possible to his “quote” or anything on them on a page this size. You’d think the android versions would just work. I guess we need a trace compiler for ARM.

Former Bush White House advisers Mike Gerson, who was W’s top speechwriter, and Pete Wehner, who worked on policy and strategic initiatives, are out today with the latest in a long line of articles on why the Republican party is in trouble, close on the heels of Robert Draper’s piece this week in the New York Times magazine.

Gerson and Wehner’s piece in Commentary magazine is, unsurprisingly, well-written, and includes some specific policy ideas that they think will help the GOP: pull a Roosevelt (Teddy) and break up the big banks; prison reform; an emphasis on worker training, and some others.

But the real strength of the piece is the historical perspectives they bring to the table. They go over the last few decades of presidential elections, and then trace the rebirth of the American Democratic Party led by Bill Clinton, and of the British Labour Party led by Tony Blair. The modern GOP, they argue, is in the same position and in the same need of dramatic reform.

The line that stood out to me was when they described the 2010 midterms, which marked the rise of the Tea Party.

“The resounding Republican midterm victory in 2010 now seems more like an aberration – a temporary backlash to presidential overreach – than evidence of an upward trend,” Wehner and Gerson write.

The Pope had a pretty good record reaching out to Muslims (as well as Jews and athiests)
[Link: www.google.com…]

The wingnuts want the next Pope to call for an all-out Crusade against the Muslims, not reach out to them. And if the next Pope has family members who are of the Islamic persuasion, they’ll convince themselves that the Catholic Church is in cahoots with the Muslims to exterminate all evangelical Protestants (well, Bible-thumping evangelical Protestants).

It’s disheartening to see areas that were moderately red in 2000 were psychotically so in 2012.

Interestingly enough, the only exceptions to this are the upper-Midwest and the Northeast. There’s a lot more local media in those areas, I think that has something to do with that.

Interesting maps. IMO, this rabid fervor is why the Republicans presently have a disadvantage in the electoral college relative to the popular vote (i.e., easier for the GOP to get over 50% of popular vote than to win the EC). There’s a lot of 90+% GOP counties out there, and the total number of votes there must be much larger than the few urban precincts with no Romney votes that got all the press.

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